Time

César A. González Nazario 

From a young age my interest for math and science was abundant. After my first class of physics in high school I was amazed by this science that studied and formulated everything in our daily lives. We could calculate with just simple formulas:  movement, speed, trajectory, it was amazing at some point I thought every answer was just waiting to be discovered by some physicist who would develop a  formula and described something no one else thought could be possible. It was inconceivable the methods and formulas you could relate daily movements and resolve problems from all this amazing equations. Although proved physics laws and equations are without doubt something out of this world my interest for something more unrealistic but probable is greater. This unreal and unproved physics material is time traveling. 

Is this even possible? My personal answer is yes. I’m no expert on the subject but I believe time is like most of the terms in physics, a way of describing a natural phenomenon were we can see a pattern, a constant. We could manipulate this natural phenomenon and go back and forth in time. Some physicists insist that the theory of relativity developed by Albert Einstein could be a hint of how time traveling could be possible. If in some way we could move at the speed of light we could bend time and space and alter it going forward in time. 

Other unproven but no less interesting physics phenomena is portals which can transport you from one place to another in relatively no time or from one universe to another. This could be possible by worm holes also known as an Einstein-Rosen Bridge. This isn’t proven but in theory this wormholes could be a shortcut through time and space. The possibility of wormholes that could be portals that things could go from one point to another was first demonstrated by Kip Thorne and his graduate student Mike Morris in a 1988 paper. For this reason, the type of traversable wormhole they proposed, held open by a spherical shell of exotic matter. Later, other types of traversable wormholes were discovered helping this hypothesis getting more realistic. 

After research and physicists thinking about it they connected time and the speed of light with these wormholes and ending up with a time traveling wormhole. This would be accomplished by accelerating one end of the wormhole to a high velocity relative to the other, and then sometime later bringing it back. Relativistic time dilation would result in the accelerated wormhole mouth aging less than the stationary one as seen by an external observer. Meaning someone could enter in one end and get out the other side the same age but the people around would have aged and time passed normally. 

These phenomenon’s are really unbelievable and somewhat we think of these as science fiction movie phenomena, but with more technologically advancement and with a lot of thinking and proving, some day we could end up time traveling, of course with good intentions and purposes. Maybe like those days in high school the answers truly lies in physics.